Nenya Kanadka

So there's about a day and a half left to bid on items at sunflower_auction! Bidding is open till 21:59 UTC on May 30 (countdown) and the auction is in support of Ukraine.

There are some really nifty things on offer, searchable through the tags--mostly online fanworks but a few physical items.

Which is where I come in! I am offering a couple of crocheted items, namely some hats and some very cute stuffed toy sharks. My listing is here with more details and how to bid.

Some pictures (more at the listing):




The example hats are just that, examples: I can make a hat to your specifications. I'm offering up to 10 hats (if that many people donate) and 3 sharks. I can ship worldwide.

My listing is here.

My small contribution to the current kerfuffle, based on a comment by sara over at synecdochic's:

We built this city on porn and law! And then we won a motherfucking Hugo. And somewhere along the way oh that's right we did kind of engage in a vigorous creative reorganization of speculative fiction.

I couldn't decide if it scanned better as "porn and law" or "law and porn" so I made both, plus some with just "we built this city."







Icons obviously shareable, credit sara for the excellent quote!

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I'm really behind on both comments and my reading page/friends' list at the moment; also private messages--if I haven't replied to you, it's not that I don't want to talk, I'm just temporarily maxed out.

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(New icon! I did like the first episode of the new Disco season a lot. :D)

(Also got awesome presents in fandom_stocking and will do a post at some point! Squee.)

OMG hi, you guys!

I feel like a dozen people have followed me here over the last couple of weeks, and half of them are completely new people I've never interacted with before, so...probably I should make a post? Er? Yes? :P

I'm actually really thrilled about all the increased posting on DW of late (even if the proximate cause, Nipplegate, is terrible). I've just been lurking a lot and being terrible at making my own posts, and sometimes commenting on other people's entries and attempting to catch up and then falling behind again, but I'm so glad to see everyone. *waves enthusiastically*

(Weirdly, I've also been feeling more connected to fandom than I have in years...through Discord. I think it fills the shitposting need for me, something I never really made happen on Tumblr. *also waves to the Cranky Fangirls and Admiral's Legion on this here DW friends' list* You lot are awesome. <3)

Let's see, what else! Fannishly I'm looking forward to the Doctor Who New Year's special, ST Discovery season 2 (MORE PHILIPPA PLZ & THX, also HI AGAIN HUGH, also Tig Notaro *swoon*), Captain Marvel, Spider-verse (Miles Morales has a movie?? it's apparently very good!), and I guess The Expanse season 4 if the corporate overlords ever make that happen. :D

Eternally disappoint that Shohreh Aghdashloo will probably never appear on Disco as Commodore Paris, but what can you do?

Oh and the Murderbot novel! I just finished the final novella (of 4) and ahhhh amazing, such a good and satisfying conclusion to that arc. Also I will never not have feelings about Murderbot ( Exit Strategy spoilers ), okay? FEELINGS, I tell you.

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates, happy Days Are Getting Longer, Thank Fuck to all in the northern hemisphere (Thank God It Might Cool Down Now to the Aussies <3), and a round of earnest cheering on to any of the Yuletiders facing down the last 36h of neon apocalypse bears before the archive opens. :D

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First of all, Happy First Contact Day! Only forty-six more years until the Vulcans land in Montana! :D

Today would also have been Gregory Peck's 101st birthday. In honour of which, please have some screenshots of him as a young, ridiculously pretty priest, kneeling down and kissing his mentor's hand.





( moar pics (2), The Keys To The Kingdom, 1944 )

All from The Keys To The Kingdom, 1944. The one where he's looking up all puppy-dog-eyed like, "Please approve of me!" (which is pretty much the context) is doing things to me. (Peck in a 1987 interview: "I hadn’t learned how to relax and how to concentrate. All I had was sincerity." HELP)

File under: Oh, The Things I Would Do To That Man, subcategory: Please, Santa, I'll Be So Good.

And, you know, it's not that I find either the Pope or John Gielgud attractive in any way, but Peck does it again in The Scarlet & The Black (1983) (also one of my favourite movies ever):



( moar pics (2), The Scarlet And The Black, 1983 )

The hair-petting, argh! The fact that this scene is a small moment of personal approval from someone the character respects, after a whole movie of incredible, inconspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice!

File under: I Don't Have A Fealty/Praise Kink, YOU DO


(According to Wikipedia, in real life Gregory Peck was also outspoken against the House Un-American Activities Committee and was a faithful Catholic who disagreed with the church about contraception and abortion. While having excellent taste in women and an almost 50-year-long marriage. I'm fond.)

Goddammit, earwormed by failmeme again:

(to the tune of Turkey In The Straw or perhaps Battle Hymn of the Republic; and in response to the Serious Question posed in the first line)

Do you ever trap your nipple in the fold-out bit?
Do you play in nippy weather and then agonize your tit?
Do you briskly pump your bellows in the midst of all your fellows
Just to find you've trapped your nipple in the fold-out bit?

I think it's the "briskly" that does me in every time. 😂

So I uh haven't posted here in...mumblety mumble...way too long. But fandom_stocking is live. Hurray! I thought I'd post a link to my stocking here, partly so I can find it again and partly of course so anyone else who wants to put stuff in it can.

Nenya's Stocking 2016.

It's something of a tl;dr list this year because I went through all my old requests and updated them. But that just means more options for people who feel like stuffing it, I guess?

IRL we have a GIANT FUCKING TREE that Mucca found and cut down, and a bunch of small presents tucked under it for when her parents come out to visit next week. It looks like being a cozy lighthouse Christmas (interrupted by episodes of art class, for me). I'm looking forward to it.

One of those "which ones have you read" memes. Original list of 60 books from here.

Bold = read
italics = read another book by the same author
strikeout = didn't finish
* = own but haven't read

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre
Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Tithe by Holly Black
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Synners by Pat Cadigan
Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Survival by Julie E. Czerneda
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
King's Dragon by Kate Elliott
Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
Slow River by Nicola Griffith
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
God Stalk by P.C. Hodgell
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
God's War by Kameron Hurley
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ash by Malinda Lo
Warchild by Karin Lowachee
Legend by Marie Lu
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
The Thief's Gamble by Juliet E. McKenna
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
*The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
*The Grass King's Concubine by Kari Sperring
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Farthing by Jo Walton
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

11 specific books, 23 Authors, 3 DNF (skimmed Handmaid's Tale in bookstore; DNF Cold Magic by Kate Elliott & Old Man's War (but finished Redshirts) & To Say Nothing of the Dog (but finished Bellwether))

Looking up authors who I didn't think I'd read, it seems like a lot of them are more on the fantasy side of the SFF pool, so I guess not so surprising that I haven't read them as I seem to splash happily over in the SF side. Also, when I find an author I love I seem to read everything I can get my hands on by them (Cherryh, the entire Vorkosigan series, quite a lot of Martha Wells), which of course shows up as just one author/book on this list. And apparently I'm most familiar with Vonda N. McIntyre and Kristine Kathryn Rusch as Star Trek tie-in novels & short stories!

So yesterday was our second anniversary. It doesn't seem like it's been that long! Then again we've been together since 2010 so we haven't yet been married as long as we were dating.

Anyway, we celebrated with pancakes (in the morning) and fancy booze (in the evening--I believe Mucca made a manhattan based on chocolate rye, which was just as swanky as it sounds). I gave her this adorable card and she gave me this necklace, though she actually got me the necklace in town so I've been wearing it for a couple of weeks already. :D (It's pretty amazing, and manages to combine romance, my fannish history, and a reference to my first try at college, all in one piece, which I figure is pretty great.)

There will be fancy cake for Mucca's birthday later in the week, but we are waiting on the grocery tender, which has not yet arrived. (Tomorrow perhaps?) Today I have poked at my accounting homework, and am procrastinating on fest fic, during which time I looked at cute pictures of boys in lipstick and then fell down a rabbit hole into a couple of fannish queer criticism essays. Which, well, I spent the whole time going "Fuck your 'sites of transgression against heteronormativity', give me some actual women in love!" (Even though, sure, I can buy fanon bisexual Howard Stark, or ship Sam/Steve or Peggy/Angie, or whatever. I just don't think some of this stuff is as revolutionary as the essay writer did.)

Anyway. Lifes goes on. I should probably make a whole post squeeing about how I got Mass Effect 3 to work (AT LAST) and how much I'm enjoying that. (A fandom which, as a matter of fact, does have canon f/f in this installment and hot boys to perv over. And fireballs to throw. It's pretty great.)

My stocking is here, though at the time of this writing it does not have any fandom tags on it, so wandering stocking-fillers might not be able to find it. Woe. I have left the mods a note and we'll see when they get to it!

Fandoms list, for the curious:

* Doctor Who (classic and new)
* Babylon 5
* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine & Voyager
* The Goblin Emperor
* CJ Cherryh's Foreigner
* Steerswoman series (Rosemary Kirstein)
* Mass Effect 2
* Supergirl
* Actors & Actresses: Paul McGann, Mira Furlan, Michelle Gomez

I feel that I should be more excited about filling stockings than I am--usually I am all "WHEE YAY" but this year so much else is going on that the thought of writing more fic seems unusually difficult. Hopefully this will change by the end of the fill period, since I do love being able to give people things. \o/

/back to editing my November writing into some kind of legit shape

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